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Article: Multicore: the future of SOCs?
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- October 30, 2008
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by Ron Wilson, Executive Editor
Will systems on chips follow server CPUs down the road to having many identical processor cores on a die?
From the early days of SOCs (systems on chips), when the devices were simply single-chip integrations of board-level microcomputers, their architectural evolution has followed a single clear path. Architects added memory. They integrated application accelerators to execute specific, clearly defined tasks with greater speed and less energy. They introduced more complex interconnect structures and DRAM controllers to support data flows among the blocks.
Then, Intel announced a change of direction in the server ...